Chapter 2
Transediting Trump
The inaugural speech reported in Italy
This chapter analyzes material collected online during Donald Trump’s inaugural speech together with material from Italian media outlets, comparing the translations published on news websites in real time and those published in printed newspapers the next day. The collection of real time texts provides insights into the translation process, testifying to the ongoing blurring of the lines separating translation and interpreting where news media are concerned. The analysis of the Italian translations enriches the critical analysis of the source texts themselves, while the possibility of observing the various stages of translation in real time on online media provides information on the influence that the media technological convergence is having on translation strategies and techniques.
Article outline
- 1.Theoretical background
- 2.The translation corpus
- 3.Translating the core message
- 4.Transediting goes live
- 5.Target texts
- 6.Concluding remarks
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Acknowledgements
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